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Low levels of literacy and numeracy have a damaging impact on almost every aspect of adults, according to a survey published yes
Low levels of literacy and numeracy have a damaging impact on almost every aspect of adults, according to a survey published yes
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2013-01-25
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问题
Low levels of literacy and numeracy have a damaging impact on almost every aspect of adults, according to a survey published yesterday, which offers (1)_____ of a developing underclass. Tests and (2)_____ with hundreds of people born in a week in 1958 graphically illustrated file (3)_____ of educational underachievement. The effects can be seen in unemployment, family (4)_____, low incomes, depression and social inactivity.
Those who left school at 16 with poor basic skills had been employed for UP to four years less than good readers (5)_____ they reached 37. Professor John Bynner, of City University, who carried the research, said that today’s (6)_____ teenagers would even encounter greater problems because the supply of (7)_____ jobs had shrunk.
Almost one fifth of the 1,700 people interviewed for yesterday’s report had poor literacy and almost half (8)_____ with innumeracy, a proportion (9)_____ other surveys for the Basic Skills Agency. Some could not read a child’s book, and most found difficult (10)_____ written instruction.
Poor readers were twice as likely to be a low wage and four times likely to live in a household where partners worked. Women in this (11)_____ were five times as likely to be (12)_____ depressed, (13)_____ both tended to feel they had no control over their lives, and to trust others (14)_____.
Those who had low literacy and numeracy were seldom (15)_____ in any community organization and less likely than others to (16)_____ in a general election. There had been no (17)_____ in the literary level of (18)_____.
Alan Wells, the agency’s director, said: "The results emphasize the dangers of developing an underclass people, who were out of work, (19)_____ depressed and often labeled themselves as (20)_____. There is a circle of marginalization, with the dice against these people and their families."
选项
A、more
B、much
C、less
D、little
答案
C
解析
考查上下文语义衔接。从选项知,此处无非是信任他人多少的问题,从本句的否定语境以及下一段中对这些人消极表现的描述均可以排除more、much,同时此处又是将他们与正常人进行比较,因此用比较级less。
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考研英语一
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